Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1887-06-18
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JOHN HAS AN ESCAPE.

Scotch cart, to which were harnessed two Of
the best horses at Mooifontein, to shoot buck
at Hans Coetzee's.
He reached the place at about $50 O'Clock.
and concluded, from the fact Of the presence
Of several carts aud horses, that he was not
the only guest. Indeed, the first person that
he saw as the cart pulled up was his late enc
my, Frank Muller.
"Kek Qook), baas," said Jantje, athere Is
Baas Frank talking to q Basutu!"
John was, as MAJ be imagined, not best
pleased at this meeting. He had always dis
liked the man, and since Muller's conduct on
the previous Friday, and Jantje's story of the
dark deed of blood in which he had been the
principal actor, he positively loathed the sight
of him. He got out of the cart, and was go
ing to walk round to the back of the house in
order to avoid him, when Muller, to all ap-
pearance, suddenly became aware of his pres
ence and advanced to meet him with the ut
most cordiality.
"How do you do, captain!" he said, holding
out his hand, which John just touched. $50
you have come to shoot buck with ON Coet-
zee; going to show us T~ransvaalers how to do
1t, eh! There, captain, don't look as stiff as a
rifle barrel. know what you are thinking
OF; that little business ut Wakkerstroom on
Friday, is it not! Well, now, l tell you what
It'll was in the wrong, and l amt afraid to
say SO as between man and man. I had had
q glass, that was the fact, and did not quite
know what l was about. We have got to live
as %neighbors here, so let us forget all about, it
and be brothers again. never bear malice,
not l. 1t is not the Lords will that we should
bear malice. Hit out from the shoulder, l
say, and then forget all about it. If it hadn't
been for that little monkey" lie added, jerk
ing bis thumb in the direction of Jantie, who
was holding the horses heads, sit would never
have happened, and it is not nice that two
Christians should quarrel about such as he.n
Muller jerked out his long speech in a sue
cession of sentences, something as a school
boy repeats Il hardly learned lesson, fdgeting
his feet and letting his eyes travel about the
ground as he did so; and it was evident to
John, who stood quite still and listened to it
in icy silence, that it was by no means an ex-
temporary one. 1t had too clearly been COM
posed for the occasion.
II do not wish to quarrel with anybody,
Meinheer Muller" he answered at length.
~ never do quarrel unless it is forced on me,
and then" he added, grimly, II do my best
to make it unpleasant for my enemy. The
other day you attacked first my servant and
~ ohA 6kAA S4AV you AOW ~
that this was an improper thing to do, and,
SO far as l am concerned, there is an end of
the matter" and he turned to enter the
house.
Muller accompanied him as far as where
Jantje was standing at the horses heads. Here
he stopped, and, putting his hand in his
pocket, took out a two shilling piece and threw
it to the Hottentot, calling to him to catch it.
JantJe was holding the horses with ono
hand. In the other he held his stick-a long
walking kerrie that he always carried, the
same on which he had shown Bessie the
notchcs. In order to catch the piece of money
he dropped the stick, and Muller's quick eve
catching sight Of the notches beneath the
knob, he stopped down, picked it up, and
examined it.
What do these mean, boy?" he asked.
pointing to the line of big and little notches,
some OF which had evidently been cut years
ago.
Jantje touched his hat, spat upon the
"Scotchman, " as the natives of that part of
Africa call q two shilling piece, and pocketed
it before he answered. The fact that the
giver had murdered all his near relations did
not make the gift less desirable in his eyes.
Hottentot moral sense is not very elevated.
mo, baas," he said, with a curious grin,
that is how l reckon. If anybody beats
oan oan.Jo GUS u hoIch pon inc SUCK,
@ o! "lsu' nelore 1T goes TO sleep ne
..ons ~ -, alu says: one oay you Will
~ 'uu' nlai twice VINO struck you once,
tLa,a = h"na n no's "ia u me :, tneln
han,- oa. D.. 0 ~ 10 l "An pay 'nehi all
- D""' lam
~ aiio'nei minute ola mans Coetzee came,
anu uii'9uhceu .ha1 IL was time TO be moving.
aeeoiui"siy VIC "nole party got into their
carts or on 10 their shooting horses, as the
VOC Tor,, ,o,;ao1 - ilunA Nuuiter
sna tuoa,. na.oe' ",ou uc as usuai on MS
tnan na au ~ us sAior ullsl1s ior more
49, a. 49,. at '. .,'n "lois ui inoehh1oe kild OF
80 IT, 49, tne ieao1ns c'r'' III "nlcn was
ond = no,o ~us'1 Ge Himself, Il Malay driver
$500 Loona ~ ooy' ,uineu 10 me le1t
~ tsS,, '"0 M Up.a ..lu.' anu '"e others 1ollowed
,ns. thau ,aaass VEN w LOT some Time, I'LL at
mnndad = lanae .no cfes' oi a rise tnat com,
hara H. $50 sSsep % open country ana
u,hs,oaa ~ 49,. "nu ncio up ms mana,
ont o,or 49, W.. 49, ,.e.' oou. o4 looking
$1,000 w. ~ '"' oeioie n.n'' 'onh dis-
nooth than n.aS .Dou, naA u Ilne De-
foad;nn %, W. Sc. LEU VI oiespuck,
thom onoin ono.ho, Ill.,, ns anu nesonu
asa.n a,'o. A he,u oi some Sixty or
sew, sem. YIN; .aucn larger ana Wilder looking ami
, mas' WIZ "nl.e G,iIs' "hlcn 1ohn at once
aao;s ae..eS s,ueIoees1e' nearer 10 them
a aHa,'' uo.o.n apou' mere ana there on the
p pa we're u COUPE Oh dozen or 50 OF grace
Aun yeiio"
linen a council of war was held, which re-
suited LII the men on Observation-Disclosures
whom was Frank Muller-being dispatched
70 circumvent the herds and drive them
toward the carts, that took up their stations